Emilie Konig

Emilie Konig (1984-) was a French Islamic State fighter during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Emilie Konig was born in Lorient, Brittany, France in 1984, the daughter of a gendarme. She was raised in a petit bourgeoisie family, and she converted to Islam by the age of 17 at her own accord, two years after dropping out of school. She claimed that she did so because she always felt spiritual and because she rubbed shoulders with Muslims, and she married a convicted drug trafficker when she was 23. Her abusive secular Muslim husband broke her nose three times before he was arrested for domestic abuse, and she fled to Paris in 2011. She began to wear the full Islamic face veil after arriving in Paris, seeking repentance for her previous work as a Lorient barmaid. She was was stopped by police for illegally wearing the full veil in public and was insulted by people in the streets, by the parents of children at her children's school, and by elderly people at a supermarket. She then associated herself with Salafist groups online, and she became a Forsane Alliza supporter. In 2012, she decided to abandon her children and marry a French jihadist in Syria, although he was killed not long after she arrived in the country (having entered through the city of Anteb in Turkey). She adopted the nom de guerre of Ummu Tawwab, becoming an IS propagandist and recruiter. She called for jihadists in France to attack French institutions and the wives of French Army soldiers. Konig would have three more children in Syria, leaving her two children in France in her mother's care. In late 2017, she was captured by the Kurdish YPG in Raqqa, and she pleaded to be repatriated after apologizing to her family and to France.